daily drivvel

Here I am, back again and I only posted yesterday. It would seem that lately I've been poting once a month. My goal is to up that.

Today's daily drivvel is all about food allergies. I am just getting over the last exposure to dairy. That happened on Wednesday. I ate out. Folks don't understand. I ate something that had dairy in it. See, some people think that only means like, *is there milk in it?* No. It means not only milk but butter, buttermilk, yogurt, cream, sour cream, cream cheese, ice cream, buttermilk, milk solids, whey, casien, yada, yada. The list is LONG. Many people who work in restaurants just simply do not know. So, therefore, I am done with eating out for now. I have not been able to breathe since Wednesday...okay, not breathe well or without wheezing. I can do a great Muttly inpression. Remember Muttly?
My stomach has been very unhappy too.
I have been discovering that the pain caused by ingesting an allergen is similar to hunger pains. At this point I am trying to distinguish between the two. Well, not at this exact moment because now I am feeling better. But over the past three days, I tried to figure out which it was. Was I successful? Well, no, but I had a revelation.
Back when I was a size 5 I ignored my bodies need for food and I ignored hunger pains. Silly body. Thinking I was going to feed her just because she was hungery. So, trying to stay healthy in a more self-loving way has been interesting in itself. I didn't put on that much weight. Only 10 pounds. But the similarity of the pain gave me a lot to think about. See, back when I was ignoring the pain I was ignoring the fact that not only was I not meeting the needs of my body but what I was eating was making me sick. But ignoring one kind of pain lead to ignoring other pain and lots of other problems as well. Like having to spend three hours in the allergists office because I was having an asthma attack which I was ignoring. I did that a lot too. Silly body. Thinking it should have air to breathe.

So, today, after the allergen invoked migraine went away I made curried oven-roasted potatoes and a tuna noodle dish. Safe and yummy. And I took the dog to the nature preserve and we walked in the frigid air. It never made it to 30 degrees today.

So, I'm paying attention now and I feel better. Let's try to keep it that way.